The Car Conundrum

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Mark Zeiger

The content you’re looking for is no longer here. We’re finally beginning to shut this blog down, to remove old content.

We’ve chosen to start with essays that are available elsewhere. Specifically, this article has been edited into our eBook, More Calories Than Cash: Frugality the Zeiger Homestead Way. It contains edited, improved, and expanded versions of essays that used to be available for free on this blog, and new material as well. You can learn more about it, and order it here.

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Introducing “Rhubarbaru”

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Mark Zeiger

In early November, we gave up our family car.

In 1994 we decided we needed a 4-wheel drive vehicle for family safety, especially our new baby daughter, Aly. We’d driven her around in front-wheel drive cars for more than a year without accident, but we had some close calls, and worried about the future. On a family trip south, we shopped for and purchased a brand new Jeep Cherokee.

We drove it for 23 years. Often, it was our only vehicle.

Subaru Outback

“Rhubarbaru” (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger).

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